Total Appearance Capture (TAC™) Ecosystem

The TAC™ Ecosystem is an award-winning appearance solution that enables an unmatched level of realism and efficiency in digital material capture and 3D design. Bring product designs to life with digital material representations that have the same visual appearance characteristics as their physical counterparts. Accurately and consistently share material appearance information across every step of the product development process to reduce design approval cycles and accelerate time to market.
Capture.

Capture.

Efficiently capture physical materials for use in virtual environments.

The TAC7 Scanner efficiently measures and stores color, size, texture, gloss, transparency, and other appearance characteristics for even the most complex materials. Scanned results are captured and shared via an Appearance Exchange File (AxF), a vendor neutral file format that is easily accessed by most major Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Computer-Aided Design (CAD), and state-of-the art rendering applications. The result is highly accurate files and reduced time for manual adjustments.



Communicate.

Communicate.

Create and manage one single library of digital materials.

The PANTORA Material Hub is a desktop application that lets you store, edit and share digital files across all of your PLM and CAD systems applications. The result is consistent material renderings from design to production and point of sale.

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TAC Ecosystem Products and Services


TAC7 Scanner

TAC7

For Scanning Appearance Characteristics


The TAC7 color scanner captures and stores color, texture, gloss and other surface appearance characteristics of physical material samples.

PANTORA Software | Create Virtual Materials and File Formats

PANTORA

For Creating Virtual Materials and File Formats


The PANTORA desktop application enables users to capture, store, manage, view and edit virtual materials and digitally exchange them via a vendor neutral Appearance Exchange (AxF) file format.

Partners

Appearance Exchange Format (AxF™)

For Communicating Material Appearance Data


AxF is a vendor-neutral file format that digitally stores and shares a material’s appearance properties across PLM, CAD and rendering applications.

Virtual Light Booth

Virtual Light Booth


The Virtual Light Booth has been discontinued.


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TAC Scanning Services

Virtual Material Service

Material Scanning Service


Let X-Rite experts handle the physical material scanning for you. Transform your samples into highly accurate digital material data files for use in 3D rendering applications.

Compatible Applications for AxF

Compatible Applications

Find out more about our Appearance Exchange File Format (AxF) and how you can digitally capture appearance data to enhance your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and state-of-the-art rendering applications.  Contact us today for more details on our AxF integration partner program.

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